Real World Clinical Blog: Rethinking Addiction Treatment
Addiction work is truly trauma work. Trauma work requires deep attunement; recognition of developmental capacity and limitations; and steady, vigorous attention to the relationship.
View ArticleWe Need To Prepare Social Work Students for Secondary Stress in the Workplace
Social work students need to learn appropriate strategies for handling the daily stressors associated with our profession, preemptively. We need to learn more in-depth, resilience-promoting strategies.
View ArticleProfessional Scholarship in Social Work Practice - Video
Scholarship, or contributing to the social work professional literature, can seem daunting and overwhelming. Here are some simple ideas to get started on your way to scholarship!
View Article10 Things I Learned From Taking a Social Work Job I Didn’t Think I Wanted
Many people are truly called to work with patients who are dying. As someone who didn’t feel called to this work and didn’t have a lot of experience being in the dying space with someone, this was...
View ArticleReal World Clinical Blog: On Childhood Sexual Abuse
To successfully treat children who have been sexually abused, several paradigm shifts are required. This means, primarily, that we need to reconceptualize the possible scope of sexual abuse.
View ArticleSelf-Care Summer: Coloring for Social Workers
The recent trend toward coloring books for adults inspired the creation of these coloring pages for social workers, from Nate Crowell, blogger at SocialWorkerSuccess.com.
View ArticleNavigating Your Field Placement Search as an Online Student
How do you secure your field placement? Especially for social work students in online programs and others whose schools require them to find their own placements, these 10 tips will provide guidance.
View ArticleEthics Alive! The 2017 NASW Code of Ethics: What's New?
The NASW Delegate Assembly approved a number of significant amendments to the NASW Code of Ethics, to take effect January 1, 2018. Read a summary of the changes.
View ArticleSelf-Care Summer: A Connection to Each Moment
When mindfulness occurs, a connection happens to each moment, allows that moment to make a mark on your journey. For social workers to use mindfulness and be present with connection allows for...
View ArticleOP-ED - Time To Get Into the Game: Social Work and Sports Activists
Star athlete activists have a passion for addressing injustice and a breadth of visibility. Social workers have advocacy skills, an understanding of policy, and knowledge of effective programs....
View ArticleSexual Assault, Harassment, and Coercive Control: The Case of Harvey Weinstein
With the recent allegations of serial sexual offenses against Harvey Weinstein, and the widespread response to the #MeToo campaign, we review the impacts of sexual assault, harassment, and coercive...
View ArticleThe One in the Chair
The one in the chair, waiting in a hospital room, often feels invisible, unseen.
View ArticleSelf-Care, A-to-Z: Gratitude as Focus, Frame, and Fuel for Self-Care
Let’s use this month of Thanks-giving to commit to using gratitude as fuel, frame, and focus for self-care.
View ArticleFall 2017 Issue of The New Social Worker - Video Table of Contents
Linda Grobman presents the Table of Contents of the Fall 2017 issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER in video format.
View ArticleA Conversation on Self-Care for Social Workers - Video
Co-editors of The A-to-Z Self-Care Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals discuss the purpose of the book, self-care and ethics, self-care as a lifestyle,and self-care strategies...
View Article11 Excellent Reasons To Consider VA for Your Social Work Career
In this article, a former VA social worker presents 11 reasons to consider a social work career in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Among them are innovation, mobility, salary, benefits, and more.
View ArticleEnter the "Reverse Poetry Contest" for Social Work Month 2018
Write a poem for a chance to win cash and publication on The New Social Worker website. Contest is a collaboration between The New Social Worker and Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work....
View ArticleTis the Season To Be Jolly? A Guide to Grief During the Holidays
Feelings of grief will not stop for a holiday, a wedding, or other “cheerful” event. Coping with grief during the holidays is challenging and requires support and understanding.
View ArticleHuman Mobility: A Uniting Journey of Perspectives - TEDx Talk by Social...
Social worker Elizabeth Gamarra challenges us to rethink how we treat immigrants and refugees in her TEDxSaltLakeCity talk.
View ArticleI'm Right Here
There are certain points in your career that will be engraved in you, the memory of which will be at your side as much as you might try to distance yourself. It is a moment like this that I will try to...
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